The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

the Hall of Marine Life opened at what is now known as the National Museum of Natural History. For more than four decades, the skull and model entertained visitors who came to marvel at a whale of ...

Parr of the American Museum of Natural History rather delicately pointed ... Then Friello crawled inside the whale and tore out all of the supporting wood-to keep the model's weight down to ...

A complete fossil of a small baleen whale, estimated to be 13.5 to 16.5 million years old, has been excavated by the Santa ...

The Natural History Museum of Utah exhibit “Orcas: Our Shared Future” will be open until April 20. The exhibition is included ...

While Richard confirms there are no unicorns in the Natural History Museum, the collections we care for do include ... Narwhals, Monodon monoceros, are toothed whales that live mostly in Arctic ...

Bickmore’s vision of establishing a natural history museum in New York City ... It takes three days to clean the museum’s blue whale model. The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live ...

A series of perfectly-preserved humpback whale foetuses reveal how whales grow before they’re born. These seven whale foetuses show the development of humpback whales in the first few months of their ...

when whales went from land to sea,” Nicholas Pyenson, the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC, says in a press release.

The Otis Booth Pavilion now welcomes visitors into the museum from the north with a six-story light-filled glass entrance, featuring a stunning, 63-foot-long fin whale skeleton. Twelve new ...